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Listeners Like You
by Listeners Like You
Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to lately. But they’ve got opinions on so. many. things. And not necessarily the opinions you’d always expect from two middle-aged white guys. Unasked for. Unnecessary. Unstoppable?
Episodes
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Episode 93: Wetter than a drowning fish
This week, Brian reports back on Twisted Teens’ Florida Water Blues, an album that raises several important questions. Is three albums in one year too many? Why does New Orleans produce so few rock bands? And has modern music quietly adopted a requirement that every album contain at least one...
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Episode 92: Wilco, Etc.
This week, Cort reports back on Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album Brian has been trying to force into his life for years and which has, according to Brian, been one of the most acclaimed records of the century for even longer. We get into Jeff Tweedy, the strange history of an album its own...
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Episode 91: Arkansas Hozier. First Attempt.
This week, Brian reports back on Sawyer Hill’s new album Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy, which gives us religion, Arkansas, a voice that appears to have been issued to a much larger human being, and the new musical concept: “Arkansas Hozier.” We try to decide exactly what kind of music Sawyer...
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Episode 90: The Meryl Streep Chum Challange
Episode 90: The Meryl Streep Chum Challenge This week, Cort reports back on Cannonball, the debut album from Man/Woman/Chainsaw. We get into a band that seems determined not to sound like the same band from song to song, the proper deployment of a violin in indie rock, rotating lead singers, and…
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Episode 89: Defamation Train
This week, Brian reports back on Ariana Grande’s new album Petal, an assignment that somehow leads us to Train covering Led Zeppelin, the limits of musical talent, and the question everybody should be asking: if you can sound like Led Zeppelin, why would you choose to sound like Train? From…
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Episode 88: Everything everywhere all at once
This week, Brian sends Cort down the Spoon rabbit hole with both a greatest hits collection and a fan-curated playlist, because apparently one assignment wasn't enough. The result? A discussion about indie rock, gateway albums, and the eternal question: is "pretty good" the same thing as "Will I...
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Episode 87: Bacharach n Roll
Brian reports back on The Age of the Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets, discovering that Alex Turner's side project sounds less like Arctic Monkeys and more like the soundtrack to a 70s or 80s spy film. The discussion wanders through David Bowie, spaghetti westerns, supergroups, and the...
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Episode 86: Oozing Positivity
Cort reports back on World Party's Goodbye Jumbo, an album he somehow already knew by heart despite being convinced he'd never heard it before. Brian makes the case for Karl Wallinger as one of pop music's great overlooked craftsmen, and the conversation wanders into college radio, movie...
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Episode 85: Wait … Kid Rock? Twice?
Brian reports back on Gigi Perez's At the Beach, In Every Life, and the verdict lands somewhere between appreciation and exhaustion. Which songs are keepers? Which songs leave Brian and Cort wondering whether they've accidentally wandered into an entirely different album. Along the way they…
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Episode 84: Had Fun? We Hope We Did.
Cort reports back on his assignment, Hope We Have Fun by Mt. Joy, and, thankfully, the answer appears to be yes. The album sends the guys down a rabbit hole of favorite tracks, genre-hopping bands, Nathaniel Rateliff connections, and the increasingly rare experience of finding an album that…
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Episode 83: Remarkably Mostly About Xfinity
The assignment was American Football’s LP4. The episode is, somehow, four days of Brian having no internet, a severed wire, a locked neighbor’s gate, and a customer satisfaction survey that would not let him rate the one person who actually helped. We promise we talk about the album too. Briefly....
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Episode 82: May Madness, Part 2
May Madness reaches its conclusion. But before the bracket chaos resumes, Cort reports back on GOLDSTAR by The Sophs. The album slowly wormed its way into his brain through catchy hooks that took their sweet time arriving, strange charm, and lyrics that demanded he actually pay attention. Brian,...
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Episode 81: May Madness Part 1
What starts as a routine assignment check-in quickly builds into something far more Earth shaking: a fully fleshed-out, 100% opinion driven, completely unnecessary, and yet thoroughly discussed bracket to determine the greatest band with a color in its name. Before the madness begins, Brian…
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Episode 80: Objectively better than Band of Brothers
This week, Cort reports back on Dead Eyes, the podcast written, produced, and narrated by Connor Ratliff, an actor who was fired from Band of Brothers because Tom Hanks thought he had… dead eyes. What starts as a JABA (just another Brian assignment) for Cort quickly morphs into a full-on binge…
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Episode 79: Milking this one beat
This week, Cort assigned Brian the debut album Sadnecessary by Milky Chance, and what follows is a discussion about: The suspicious similarity threaded through half the album’s tracks Why both of us had déjà vu listening to songs we swear we’ve heard before by a band we've never heard of The fine...
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Episode 78: Making up music on the McFly
In this episode, Brian and Cort celebrate a near-anniversary of Listeners Like You. Cort reports back on Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Denial. Some songs hit harder than others but not in the way Cort would have expected. From there, things go into "unstructured land." They talk about Paradise and...
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Episode 77: Yo Quiero Este Podcast
Cort recommended Rosalía. Brian listened to it. Shockingly, someone loved it. The boys then spiral into a discussion about foreign languages (because Rosalía), cultural barriers, and what it means to enjoy music you don’t fully understand. Also, they talk about the Oscars. Not that anyone asked.…
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Episode 76: Strokes, Killers, & a Shot of Glenlivitch
For the first time in show history, Cort reports back on two assignments: Hot Fuss by The Killers and Is This It by The Strokes. Spoiler: in the battle of early-2000s skinny-tie rock, Julian Casablancas and company take the win. While Brandon Flowers receives everything he is due, Is This It...
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Episode 75: 75 More or Less
Brian doesn't love the honk of Geese? The guys have some corrections to share. It's also episode 75, so there's the "episode 75" game that must be played. We hit a TON of pop culture. Brian is asking the questions, sir! Not Cort! Join us! Geese - Getting Killed -...
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Episode 74: Love (of audiobooks) is not the answer.
Cort returns with a review of Dove Ellis's Blizzard, a debut album that came out of nowhere. Dove gained notoriety opening for Geese, and Blizzard may have (briefly) consumed Brian's world. The consensus favorite song is “love is,” which sparks the important question: great song… or perfect song?...
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Episode 73: Empathy is a Bitch
Brian reports back on his latest assignment from Cort: chapters 6–16 of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Somewhere along the way, Brian may have warmed up to the previously disparaged Owen Teale. The conversation expands to Jones’s broader body of work and why empathy, once...
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Episode 72: Kendrick Lamar's Christmas Shoes
Brian assigned Cort some holiday spirit with Holiday Rules, a Christmas compilation by various artists, and some nostalgia with The Grand Archives by Grand Archives. Feelings were had. Some stronger than others. No one is claiming a seasonal awakening, but we listened and we showed up. From…
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Episode 71: The Hunter Hunter Hunt Begins
This week, Brian reports back on his assignment: the first five chapters of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Cort’s new literary obsession and Brian’s long-standing one). Turns out, loving Jones on the page may or may not mean loving his work performed directly into your ears....
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Episode 70: A record number of errors?
Brian assigned Cort An Awesome Wave by Alt-J… and Cort actually loved it. The album’s layered production and a unique approach to the rhythm section landed squarely in his wheelhouse, especially since the lyrics mattered approximately not at all. Brian had thoughts too, of course, and they…
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Episode 69: Winding Down the Staircase
Brian and Cort are at it again in Episode 69 of Listeners Like You, the podcast for listeners by listeners, in which Brian and Cort pretend sharing their extremely ordinary media consumption habits are a public service. In this episode, Brian and Cort heroically attempt to discuss the end of…
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Episode 68: Squatty Potty Confessions
Cort takes on Bones by Rainbow Kitten Surprise, a band whose lineup and sound have seen some serious evolution. We also recount our recent night out at an MJ Lenderman show (with our first ever guest, Hanson Tipton), dive into the Neil Diamond jukebox musical A Beautiful Noise, and debate what...
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Episode 67: The Staircase Returns
This week, the guys revisit The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig as Brian continues his audiobook experiment and reiterates his position that nothing shatters immersion quite like a narrator trying to do both male and female voices. Cort, meanwhile, listened to the podcast My Wife Hates…
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Episode 66: 9-21-25
This ep, Cort listens to Another Fine Day by Golden Smog, Brian tries his hand at instant home brewing, and the guys talk about Memphis’s shifting soccer scene. With the loss of 901 FC almost ancient news at this point, Brian rejoices the arrival of a new semi-pro team. 🎶 Album: Another Fine Day…
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Episode 65: The Staircase in the Podcast
Just when we think we've got this podcasting thing figured out, we get thrown a curveball. So now we're throwing curveballs too! Brian’s assignment was the first eight chapters of the AUDIOBOOK of Chuck Wendig’s A Staircase in the Woods—about an hour of listening pleasure. Brian, ever the...
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Episode 64: DC Coke and the Night Sweats
Cort listened to Brian’s Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats setlist-turned-playlist assignment. Brian spent a week in Colorado going to concerts and is ready to talk about it! Brian is still watching shark movies ... good ones, even. The guys also get into Memphis’s craft brewery scene, and…
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Episode 63: Kind Bookends of Appalachia
In this episode, did Brian enjoy the Old Gods of Appalachia horror podcast? Cort didn’t listen to it, despite promising to, which prompts Brian to demand a new, more reliable system for assigning homework. AUDIOBOOKS ARE ON THE TABLE! (accountability is not) Brian recounts his recent trip to see...
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Episode 62: Bull Sharks, Etc.
Brian assigned Talking Through Tin Cans by The Morning Benders, and what starts as Cort’s simple album review turns into a deep dive on the band’s identity shift, artistic shift, and the fact that the name change apparently changed everything. Cort did his research, people, but Brian came with...
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Episode 61: A Noid Not to Avoid
We’re back with Brian’s thoughts on Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia, an album recommended by Cort’s daughter. While Brian’s reaction is, let’s say, unsurprising … the conversation actually gets pretty deep into the weeds in a good way. We dig into the fact that what makes a challenging album...
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Episode 60: The One with Whit (This is not a Fugazi podcast)
This week, we welcome our youngest (and likely most musically gifted) guest ever, Brian’s son, Whit Faughnan, who gave us a playlist of Fugazi tracks because he likes Fugazi and the DC Hardcore scene (you know, the one from before he was born). We go deep on Fugazi's music and history and dig...
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Episode 59: Vampire liars
This episode, Cort reports back on Not Animal by Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s and yada, yada, yada, next thing you know Brian is practically giving a TED Talk on the original makeup of the band, its founder Richard Edwards, and the band’s “break-up.” So what actually is Margot & the Nuclear…
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Episode 58: Irish Wakeboarding
In this episode, Brian goes on a three-album detour just to reach Cort's recommendation of Strange Ranger’s No Light in Heaven. Cort actually listens to one of his own recs for a change, and his feelings are … mixed. But! His one-time stated, but frequently ascribed "long-standing belief" in the...
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Episode 57: Condiment Hypocrisy
This week, Cort gets an assignment that's pure rock and roll gold: Tell Me I’m Pretty by Cage the Elephant. Spoiler LOLZ, he loved it. Brian takes us deeper with his thoughts on the band, trivia about the Shultz brothers who formed it, and the band’s (or at least the brothers') southern origins....
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Episode 56 – Jazz with No Soul
In this episode of Listeners Like You, Cort assigned homework. Brian turns in a meh review, and somehow Gracie Lawrence walks away with a Tony nomination anyway. Cort made Brian listen to Family Business by Lawrence. In Cort's opinion it's a funky, soulful, horn-infused joyride of an album...
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Episode 55: The One with William (fka Deep Music)
Brian and Cort have a guest, which of course means our listeners should quadruple. Come listen to us discuss Peach Pit's album Magpie and compare it to one of their earlier works, You and Your Friends. On a personal note, Brian had a lot of fun recording with Cort's son, who reminds Brian a lot…
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Episode 54: Episode 50 Revisited (feat. F*cktopus)
The boys are at it again. Cort talks the new Hamilton Leithauser album, This Side of the Island. Bon Iver had a new album drop. So did Mumford and Sons. Brian decides it’s time to jettison a “popular” segment and leaves listeners with some sage advice. Also there is so much new TV and there’s a…
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Episode 53: the frequency waves will hurt the brains
We get a little straight-up saucy in this one. Brian talks about Finneas' 2024 album, For Cryin' Out Lout. There are rule-changes afoot in Traitors US and UK, and Brian doesn't like it! Speaking of rule changes, did I mention we're saucy? Our rules are out the window for a little segment we like…
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Episode 52: On a scale of 1 to 100. It's like a 2 out of 3.
The guys discuss their somewhat differing opinions of Michigander's 2025 self-titled album. They discuss which talents such as singing ability should really be considered when determining the winners of acting superlatives in races such as the Oscars. Their ever-increasingly popular segment, So...
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Episode 51: You're bluegrass curious. I think grass should be green.
There is a definite difference in musical taste when it comes to musical tastes. Brian reviews Steep Canyon Rangers' 2023 album Morning Shift. The guys dream of escaping to Norway. There is a discussion about the touring version of the Broadway show Hamilton that just recently passed through...
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Bonus Episode: The Lumineers! Automatic! For the people?
Surprise surprise. The guys have thrown together a little bonus episode to celebrate the release of The Lumineers new album, Automatic. Join them as they spend twice as much time discussing the album as it takes to listen to it. Laugh along at Cort's wildly incorrect interpretations of the songs....
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Episode 50: The One with Trish (Must watch a Better Man)
Brian and Cort welcome guest Trisha Rich. They discuss Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, a little revisiting of the play Girl from the North Country, and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete unknown, which of course leads to a broader, longer conversation about this year's Oscar nominations and…
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Episode 49: Genesis is an interesting story
In the penultimate episode of season 5 of Listeners Like You the guys . . . sorry, this just in, Listeners Like You famously doesn't do seasons. But if we did, this would be an awesome penultimate episode. Cort talks about the revelation that is Wishy's Triple Seven (henceforth "777") and the...
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Episode 48: The compass is for my pleasure
In this episode the guys discuss Brian's experience with Depresh Mode with John Moe. It leads them into a pretty in depth conversation about podcast production and production values, which is totally not as dry a conversation as it sounds! Because ... these boys are on fire. What motivates the...
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Episode 47: Dumper on the Jumper?
Wherein the guys discuss the album Cunningham Bird (a song for song remake of Buckingham Nicks) by Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham. Cort digs in to the subtle differences between the audio versions of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone read by Jim Dale and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's...
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Episode 46: Kazakhstan? Not that bad.
In this episode Brian gives his take on Lin-Manuel Miranda's concept album, Warriors, and ever the overachiever, he also went out and watched the 1979 film it was based on, The Warriors. There is a discussion about Cort's Spotify Wrapped list, and then the guys take a hard right turn into Yacht...
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Episode 45: The One With Hanson (not feat. Quiet Riot)
Brian and Cort welcome another very special guest on this very special episode of Listeners Like You. Long-time listener, first-time caller Hanson Tipton peeks in to share his thoughts on music and music history. The group discussed MJ Lenderman's "Manning Fireworks." "Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The…
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Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to lately. But they’ve got opinions on so. many. things. And not necessarily the opinions you’d always expect from two middle-aged white guys. Unasked for. Unnecessary. Unstoppable?
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